From ian at indecorous.com Tue May 4 08:45:03 2010
From: ian at indecorous.com (Ian Malpass)
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 10:45:03 -0500
Subject: [Mpls-pm] Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] Send-A-Newbie, requests for donations
Message-ID: <4BE040FF.4040800@indecorous.com>
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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Send-A-Newbie, requests for donations
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 12:38:35 +0100
From: Mark Keating
Reply-To: london.pm at london.pm.org
To: London Announce , NWE
, EPO Members
Last year many individuals and companies donated money to the
send-a-newbie initiative run by Edmund von der Burg. It was a great
success. At the end of last year Edmund approached the EPO with the task
of organising a similar event this year as he was unable to because of
other commitments.
Therefore I come to you all to ask you to donate once again to this
excellent project, please make a donation at
send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org (or send your donation to
send-a-newbie at paypal.com). If you made a donation last year, I thank you
and would gratefully ask for you to do so once more.[1]
If you are new to this idea allow me a few moments to describe it.
The send-a-newbie scheme will allow people to attend a Perl conference
(YAPC::EU for us, and this year YAPC::NA will have a scheme organised by
the Perl Foundation) if:
a. they have never attended a YAPC/Major Perl event previously;
b. they are financially unable to do so;
c. they work in/study/use Perl.
The only changes we have made to the terms of entry this year is to
broaden the scope. The Enlightened Perl Organisation members voted that
we manage this initiative on the sole condition that it was open to all
people regardless of age or circumstance (there were some minor
restrictions in the previous year that did not reflect our requirements).
This year we will be listing our sponsors on the website to express our
thanks[2] and because we believe in openess of information. A list of
names will appear that people can admire and give respect[3]. If you
would like to/do donate and don't want your name listed then please
contact Mark or Rosellyne and let them know and they will ensure that
you are not listed.
Thanks for your consideration, and thanks-in-advance to those who are
considering donating.
Kind regards
Mark
Secretary to the EPO
p.s. If you know of any list, forum where this information might be
posted then I would kindly ask that you repeat it there.
p.p.s Sorry if this is a repost for some of you (or you see multiple
copies of it) - please do not let you stop from donating.
[1] Please, please, pretty please on bended knees :)
[2] An almost exact opposite of name and shame.
[3] Also they can perhaps feel sickened that they were too jaded to
support such a great idea.
From josjr69 at gmail.com Wed May 12 11:25:57 2010
From: josjr69 at gmail.com (James Smith)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 13:25:57 -0500
Subject: [Mpls-pm] Perl Monger's Tonight?
Message-ID:
Just curious.
I'm deep in the middle of "modernizing" my perl-self, seeking to
de-old-school myself. If anyone is around and willing to have a cup of
coffee and I'l like to compare notes about "modern" perl, current
"relevant" perl skill sets and contract work vs full-time/permanent
work.
Since this will mark my twentieth year of working with Perl, I figured
I'd put the pdf copy of my original, first edition, first print
"Camel" book on my web site for download and look-see:
http://www.josjr.com/download/pdf/Perl_First_Edition_January_1991.pdf
I had to special order it at the Barnes and Noble in Roseville in the
winter of 1990-91.
I now have an instance of Catalyst server in place on my new "cloud"
virtual personal server running:
http://s15338188.onlinehome-server.com:3000/
http://josjr.com/
Now that my course is over, the server is in place and I've put some
big requests for the University behind me I can start plowing through
the mountain of new technologies that been integrated beneath the hood
of Catalyst and whatever cooperating client frameworks are running in
the browsers (JavaScript [Ajax, ExtJS, jQuery], CSS, XHTML, XML, XSLT,
etc).
I have a number of applications I want to build in Catalyst;
Tools for Writers
Kindle Resources
Publication search engine for Writers (gather submission guidelines
and organize them in a database for writers, presented by genre).
I have scanned and OCR-ed all of my technical books and I am now in
the process of creating Kindle ebooks (prc, Mobipocket creator) of
them. With my eyes it is very difficult to read physical books, so the
Kindle, with it's eink and network connectivity have been wonderful in
my Catalyst/JavaScript explorations...
There is a natural language/speech researcher at the University who is
interested in collaborating on adapting some of his web-deployed tools
within the Catalyst framework.
I would also, and probably first, like to develop some interactive
Catalyst tutorials that would help those interested (like me) to get
past the initial, somewhat overwhelming learning curve of Catalyst,
ORM, etc. I will start by integrating examples for various tutorials
on the web and develop some of my own. If any of you have some simple
Catalyst-deployed applications that would be good candidates for
incorporation into on-line tutorials send them my way.
Personally, in spite of the abrupt shock of being laid off and the
up-coming insecurity that I will be facing as August approaches, I am
excited about taking a fresh look at these world of Perl that never
seizes to amaze me.
Anyway, if there is anyone meeting tonight let me know.
Meanwhile, back to my retreading...
Jim
josjr at umn.edu
--
James Oliver Smith, Jr
josjr69 at gmail.com
www.cyberpoet.com
From autarch at urth.org Thu May 20 05:42:56 2010
From: autarch at urth.org (Dave Rolsky)
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 07:42:56 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [Mpls-pm] [pm_groups] The Perl Survey 2010 is now live (fwd)
Message-ID:
From: Kieren Diment
The Perl Survey 2010 is now live. Its purpose is to better understand
the demographics and opinions of the Perl community. You can complete
the survey at http://survey.perlfoundation.org - it should take about
10 to 15 minutes. Once you've done that, please let your relevant
friends and colleagues know about the survey so they can coplete it as
well. My aim is to get a response of over 1000 individuals, and to
run the survey (lightly adapted) every two or three years so we can
see how the community changes over time. The official announcement of
the survey is here:
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/05/grant-update-the-perl-survey-1.html
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